Training Technology to work for its users!

I've found that computers make people look crazy. Why? Because only crazy people do the same thing twice and expect a different result, but only computer users do the same thing twice and actually get a different result.

Well here are a couple of the results I've been able to expect:

Still have your old old Nintendo Entertainment system? I do(still play it every once or twice too.) And for the dreaded NES flashing blue screen of death? Just lift pin 4 from the 10NES chip and ground it. That effectively neuters the hardware lock. Shh. Don't tell Nintendo.

Drivers drivers drivers! Always update drivers when experiencing indeterminable and unrecorded crashes. (Care of Nvidia)

Hard drives are not all the same/compatible. IBM laptop drives in particular tend to not work on all desktop IDE controllers. Those USB to IDE dongles, however, defeat this issue effectively.

Re: How do you find UUID? blkid OR ls /dev/disk/by-uuid OR sudo vol_id -u <partition>

List available hard drives in Linux: sudo fdisk -l

Linux dns queries don't work except in 'host <domain.name>' ping doesn't work, resolving is broken, resolv.conf is set up correctly, local or IP works fine. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf line 'hosts' to include dns, and do /etc/init.d/nscd restart